German Rhineland Bellarmine jug

Bellarmine jug

Or Bartmann jug (from German Bartmann, “bearded man”), of stoneware covered in ferruginous glaze, applied with ring-handle, the neck moulded with the mask of a bearded man, the body with a medallion charged with a six-petaled flower, another such flower on the sides.
German Rhineland. First Half of the 17th Centuy.